
Say, why can’t
we cut off that
‘to do list’
to a bare minimum
to bone level
to save us from
the yawning and
edging on our way
to the bloody gold hunt
the whole globe is
driving us;
and to breathe
a good breath?
Impossible !
Not in list.
The Country Wife
She reaches the condemned
cities of concrete, tar. and
sound, ditch and gas .
along with other
grieving to
live with.
Her stars, sky,
soil, stream,
wood and hills,
Lurking within;
Make a peep up
show like a bird
or the wind
from south
on her
every call. .
Cities fail to
Assert her
From delights
Saved inner
Word is dead
Word is dead
already before
it’s taken form
of a sound
or a script;
We get
The carcass
of it like
a nut
buried within
the encasement
of a groundnut .
Word breathes;
pulsates;
bleeds too; when
It is within
the inner;
struggling to
get a form.
The groundnut
or any seed,
Like the dead
Word gets
another chance
of rebirth.
But that too
is short lived
until it’s born;
We make
great fuss
dealing with
shells ever.
A habit.
The mystery
A sweet singing
parakeet and a
smart winding potter
befitting to be
the partners of
a fable lived
longer together
for ten years.
under a tree.
Their fame went
Abroad
Many Cambridged,
Harvarded and
Oxforded ladies
And gentlemen
Came to see
him and his parakeet ,
every time with the
same query.
‘Where did
you both study?’
Potter’s reply
left them unbelieving.;
They went
doubting how
a parakeet and
a potter left
ungraduated or un- PGied
in a reputed university
or not studied in any
Schools of music and pottery
Could sing or make
Pottery?
Off- late one
among them decided
to do a doctorate
out of the mystery.
She did and
everything
went clear;
nobody came
nor queried
the potter
for all
referred to
The thesis.
A case of an ancient race
Commandos with
Cowardly looks
And cunningly guns
Concealed by
A connoisseurship of
Word mincing
Stood above and around me
Compelling always to
Walk over
The barbed wires of
Ignorance and idiocy;
Which they quite
get used to.
They have their
;
Ignorance and idiocy is
Good for the individual
as well as racial health.
You can kill
Or get killed
With a glorious
Fan-fare and remain
Ever a martyr.
‘See ignorance and
Idiocy had killed
Our forefathers
A million times;
Don’t you see
that they are
Remembered and
Idolized throughout
The earth.
(I heard a gossip that
some prehistoric
attempts too are in process
to discover or if not invent)
‘But knowingly making
barbed- wire walking
Would cause pain.’
I suggested meekly.
‘Idiocy and ignorance are
Great killers of time
And boredom
Hence very essential.
For the growth of the race
And its future;
You need to be get
Killed billion times by
Ignorance and idiocy.’
‘Then?’
‘Then you would begin
loving barbed
Wire walking
And learn loving
them too
getting
Accustomed to
killing millions and
Billions and trillions
In future zillion times,
By ignorance and idiocy;
The only assets
Of our ancient race;
We mean the total
Human race.’
‘But Science..’
They interrupted
Guessing what
I was after.
‘Science is a
Anesthetic process;
You don’t live
With it;
You come out and
live your
day today life
only to exist
With idiocy and ignorance
For that you are born
To live, understand?’
I understood
Guns solve arguments
Effectively.
The Prayer
The rock inside
Me melts
Into drops
And the rock
Inside my chest
drinks those
Tear drops
Spilled for
No cause
Calling for
No help
Making
No appeals
Feeling for
No reason
Crying with
No pains
Just weeping
Just for
The joy for
Weeping.
At the end
I feel I had
Weightless wings
And begin
Floating…
Floating…
with a
Feel of
Being unborn
Ease.
Command me
Command me
to turn as an ocean
Davila
All my emotion
Get tangle tangle
And thickly, thickly
Davila,
I don’t like this
Lonely nation
Davila,
Each direction
Denude you and me
Making friction
Davila…
Command me
To turn as an ocean
Davila…
Separation left
Me in desperation
Davila …
No nation suits
Me to stay
In isolation
From you
Davila..
Lonely lonely
Davila ..
This shore makes
Me leanly
Davila;
Don’t leave
Me low and
Low as
Lonely being
Davila
Command me
To turn as an ocean
Davila
I’ll reach your nation
Davila....
Which remains a nation?
Everything is shaken, everything is shaken
Everything is taken, everything is taken
Everything is broken, everything is broken
Everything is slacken everything is slacken
Nothing remains a nation, nothing remains a nation,
Let’s make compensation, let’s make compensation
Everything is bursting, everything is bursting
Everything is thrusting, everything is thrusting
Everything is distrusting everything is distrusting
Everything is frustrating, everything is frustrating
Nothing remains a nation, nothing remains a nation,
Let’ all bring compassion, Better we bring compassion
Everywhere is demotion, everywhere is demotion
Everywhere is commotion, everywhere is commotion
Everywhere is corruption, everywhere is corruption
Everywhere is eruption, everywhere is eruption
Nothing remains a nation, nothing remains a nation,
Let’s find modification, let’s find modification
Everything is bleeding, everything is bleeding
Everything is fading, everything is fading,
Everything is corroding, everything is corroding
Everything is demanding, everything is demanding
Nothing remains a nation, nothing remains a nation,
Let’s make transfusion, let’s make transfusion. .
Every now is timing, every now is timing
Every now is claiming, every now is claiming,
Every now is naming, every now is naming,
Every now is chiming, every now is chiming
Listening claims the nation, listening claims the nation,
Let’s find right reaction, let’s find right reaction
Every then is transition, every then is transition
Every then is rendition, every then is rendition,
Every then is condition, every then is condition,
Every then is monition every then is monition
Taking fast attention, taking fast attention
Making remains a nation, making remains a nation.
Wisdom ripening
Two vultures
Both resembling
Wife and husband
With shaven necks
Sit regularly
At the day-break
And at sunset
Over the two antennae
Straight opposite
To my viewpoint;
Facing each other
They look like
Discussing something
Vitally important.
My wisdom hunger
And knowledge thirst
Grew keen to pickup
Message they threw up
Once they copulated
Over the antennae;
I am alarmed
That the antenna
Would get twisted
But it didn’t.
After then
They didn’t
Return to sit
Upon the antennae
Was it the whole
Message meant
For me;
Should I have to
grope meaning and
message from it?
Later
People informed
That the butchery
Near about
Was transferred.
And they killed cows
By morning
And close business
After evening.
Wind is my girl friend
Wind is my girl friend;
And this shouldn’t be interpreted
As water is my enemy
Or weather is my rival;
Only for inviting them all;
My window is throw open
All its shutter hands in
Welcoming gestures.
Sparrows are many time guests;
Some miscarried parrots
And squirrels at times;
Always mosquitoes and
Other species of the mother earth
Blurted out from her womb with
Many million years of life history
Come in and
Quit getting confirmed information of my love
For my girl friend wind,
And her entry zone, the window.
They enter,
See , how I love their living
Loving and dying.
Oftener
The rain enforced
A deadly swamp in,
And the Sun
With his kingly grin,
Made fun in turn.
To recreate,
My girl friend wind
Brought the chimes
Of the near by clock tower
Along with the flowery primes
Of the seasons ;
And leaves fallen with reasons.
I was called a crank
By the people of rank.
So what?
If I close the window
Forbidding my girl
Friend wind,
Who would compensate
What I miss
Through this
Sound and smell of
A sadly happier
Short lane.
How gladly my
Girl friend carries them in
With a lovely fun !
Speech borne eyes
Have you ever heard that before, Tanya?
What?
Something about your eyes…
Could it be explained?
I see them as the pair of strange negatives
Mischievous ,yet enduring ,
Gracious but cruel
Closer, yet standing at safer distance
Making me feel that they float
Me on a safe cool stream
Leading to a defenseless destiny.
Your eyes speak so much Tanya.
I am pretty much speechless,
I don't see my eyes
With my own eyes
I guess I live with them
Better be guaranteed that
Compliments would not be
Paid off by kisses.
Money Maker’s
Manual
Drawing a plan of
Selling Sand to
Selling Salt to Seven Seas?
Okay , it seems attractive.
Pardon me,
I don’t try being cynical
Neither ironical.
A person cursed
To be a verser
Can’t afford
That luxury.
This is a seller’s world.
You can’t afford to be otherwise.
In money maker’s manual
The first clear radical
Rule number one
Suggests that
Threaten first
That
Lose the sand sooner
And Seven Seas, the salt.
As per rule number two
You need to wrap
The materials in attractive
Multi coloured covers
Printed with seventy five
Percent of nude girls’ images
Aged between sixteen
And twenty.
The money maker’s manual
Strictly warns no lessening
Or increasing the percentage
Of nudity or age of the girls.
Take it granted that
Your sand and salt have already sold
To the places concerned.
And thank MMM.